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Movie Review: Following (Nolan)

I saw this with my roommate as part of a test screening for the DVD release, so I've already had a chance to think about this a little. And the result was that I felt it was "Good" but not "Excellent" or whatever the little checkboxes I had to choose from were. It was an interesting story of someone getting involved in burglary. There were lots of really good scenes between the actors, with interesting and entertaining dialog. However, the movie used a lot of flashbacks and playing-with-ordering, which felt a little gimmicky coming into this thinking about Memento. If I had seen the movies in the opposite order, I would probably say this about Memento. But it felt a little more unnecessary here, which reduced my overall level of enjoyment of the movie. Although I thought it was still good. Probably worth it just to hear the more experienced burglar talking about his theories of burglaring.